Written by Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire Since the beginning of the Palestinian Grand Return March on land Day 30th April, the world has looked on in horror as Israel has killed at least 109 Palestinians and injured thousands of unarmed Palestinians asking to...

The European Union is the successor of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) created in 1951 by six countries: Germany, France, Belgium, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. On 25 March 1957 in Rome, these same countries signed the treaties establishing the...

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf holds a Harvard degree in public administration. She spent more than a year in prison during the 1980-1990 dictatorship rule of General Samuel Doe. Ms Sirleaf was Liberia’s finance minister, worked at the World Bank and served as Vice President...

Liu Xiaobo was born on the 28th of December 1955. As a young man he studied literature and philosophy, and worked as a literary critic and university lecturer in Beijing. He took a doctorate in 1988, after which he was a guest lecturer at universities in Europe and...

Barack Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of his efforts to strengthen international diplomacy, in particular for his work for a world without nuclear weapons. Mr Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii to a mixed-race family. His parents, Ann Dunham from...

Mr Ahtisaari was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of his more than thirty years of work to resolve international conflicts on several continents. He started a career in diplomacy in 1965 and later became involved in working for the United Nations. In 1972...